Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1887-04-08
take castor oil, followed By quinins. "The
only way 10 break II up." VA assured 30


Of the seed OF the Palma Christ, and reviy
ed the memories Of my youth, when mother
used to hold my nose firmly with one hand
as she forced that awful table spoon filled
to the brim with olesginous horror into my
unwilling mouth; aud amid gurglinss and
gaspnes OF mingled rage and disgust. that
mex orabe oil went slowly down my throat
Oh, how hard IL was to swallow II was 90
thick Why has no philanthropist ever
devised plan for thinning castor oilS Not
to lose a drop OF the precious sperient, |
we'll remember how my dear mother u'ed
to scrape from my chin the few relics Of the
dose that had succeeded in denying il.
gress at FIRST Vain deluliot, I, was only
little useless delay. Batter for me had i
taken all In at once, "like q good boy" as
I had been tenderly exhor;ed to do, BIT |
want good boy. SO had my nose held,
and WAS duly scraped with the spoon, and
horror OF horror had to lick it out clean,
a. a crowning misery and degradation; and
Was dismissed bowling, with an insulting
crust Of dry bread. 10 be chewed slowly, TO
take the taste out OF my mouth" How il
all came back TO me the other day when
was offered the same nauseous dose, az cum
ningly disguised az kindness could do it,
but still the same thick, unswsllowable
substance that used to take straight" in
my hspless bovhood. lesl believe 10 cas-
tor oil, II lea very Samson with uushorn
locks in its power TO move the gates OF Ga
"a am slowly recovering, after nearly
two weeks, from the drastic remedy, that
sciences prescribes. The quiniue set bee, to
burning and trip hammers to humping in
my poor head in way familiar to all who
use that specific. Ye.l l believe in quinine
too. Ny malsrisl symptoms vanished
be, wsen this cross fire OF potent remedies.
Well, do you ask what think nov? I
will tell you. Mustard plssters are good
Faith without them. Ia batter. Castor oil
is good. Trust in God. and nothing else, is
better. Qiinine is good. But the dear
Physician. who heals with drop OF oil on
the brow and in answsr to the prayer Of
faith, Is better, far better. The LORD
knows made this honest experiment Just
because had and have . holy horror Of
getting into . bigoted fanatical grove in
anything. And think have come out Of
II alive, because could look the dear Mas
ter in the face ell the way through and sp.
peal to Him ss TO my simple integrity in
the matter. But have also come out Of
IL With . 6rmer persuasion that il IL ketter
10 trus, In the LORD alone, In oil such
straights. than I eyer hsd before. Yet,
still believe that Q weak faith ought not 10
attempt more than IL can carry through;
and that medicine 10 and always will be .
deniey resort and an excellent one for
"them that believe not" and for such Is
have feeble capacity Of trust. "Nsvsrthe-
lees, he that standeth stesdfsst in his heart.
having no necessity, but hath power over
his own will, AMI hath 90 decreed in his
hear, that he will keep his integrity, dosth
we'll" to abstain from anything 10 the way
OF q prop 10 feeble faith. think crowns
are won and lost just ., this point. And
this is all have TO say now on this subject
Oar last Sunday morning at Houms was
devoted again TO the colored brethren. and
don't know when have felt greater lib
erty in preaching the Word than at Ior
church, on Terre.B)nne BAYOU. This lsst
congregation were Baptists, also, but quit,
10 another part OF town from the scene o.
the previous Sabbath services.
The dear Creoles were enthusiastic lis
tener. to the last. Dat OF their exceeding
poverty they made up 8 little purse that
verify believe represented more genuin,
lf-deuisl than any gilt ] ever received il
any place. God bles, these dear Catholicr
OF Terre-Bonne'
We we're only i've days at Franklin, 81
Msry's Parish. Several of the desres
friends Of nv college life, all dead now
came from St. Mary Ralph Cifisry, DJl
Murphy, Hank Wilcoxon, all hailed from
Franklin. LISA pretty, old fashioned plsc
on the banks OF Bayou Teche, THE stretot
Of sugar plantations is the finest in Lou!si
a.. Charles Dudley Warner has full!
threshed out the subject in Harper, yer!
lately
We had glorious congregations in Frank
lin, Dat bad to lesve sooner than We liked
Tue dear LORD knows all about il. an
no, going to complain,
At New Orleans whom should we stun
bic against, as We we're jostling into tn
ferry to ,ss to the city, but our cousin
from San Francisco, whom We had parte
from last August, Mrs. Pscheo and he
daughter, Mabel, en- route for New Yori
They wers detained in New Orleans .
hours by q misconnection and we spsn
Tuesday With them. most delightfully."-
The weather just heavenly.
We ran up to dear old McComb by !
o'clock Tuesday night and found the entir
Craft family waiting for US with open arm
at the depot. What q Joy il was to q